Volunteers chat with a quake-affected resident at a relocation site in Zhangxian County, Dingxi City, northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 28, 2025.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Longxi County in Dingxi City at 5:49 a.m. Saturday. The quake was strongly felt in Longxi County, Zhangxian County, Weiyuan County and Lintao County in Dingxi City and Wushan County in Tianshui City.
Currently, affected residents have been promptly relocated and accommodated, and clearing and risk elimination work on damaged roads and houses is underway in an orderly manner. (Xinhua/Lang Bingbing)
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 29, 2025. The two test satellites were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies. (Photo by Yang Xi/Xinhua)
Flood relief supplies donated by the Chinese government are pictured in Pakistan's eastern Rawalpindi district, Sept. 28, 2025. The first batch of emergency flood relief supplies donated by the Chinese government arrived in Pakistan on Sunday, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)
This photo taken on Sept. 29, 2025 shows the centrifuge coded CHIEF1300, one of the core components of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. China on Monday launched the world's largest centrifuge in terms of capacity, capable of generating 300 times Earth's gravity for a load up to 20 tonnes.
The machine, coded CHIEF1300, is one of the core components of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) currently under construction in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.
It can be harnessed for frontier research spanning deep-ocean and deep-Earth resources extraction, disaster mitigation and prevention, underground waste disposal, and the synthesis of new materials. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 29, 2025 shows a section of the G8513 expressway linking Jiuzhai Valley and Mianyang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The opening of the first expressway to directly reach Jiuzhai Valley in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday has halved the driving time from Chengdu, the provincial capital, to the UNESCO World Heritage Site to just four hours.
The G8513 expressway, stretching about 246 km from Jiuzhai Valley to the city of Mianyang in Sichuan, features two lanes in each direction and is designed for a speed of 80 km per hour. (Photo by Liu Huawei/Xinhua)
Passengers board a train at Jinhua Railway Station in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 29, 2025. China's National Day holiday travel rush started on Sept. 29 and will last until Oct. 10. (Photo by Hu Xiaofei/Xinhua)
A cyclist looks back during the men's elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sept. 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)
Invited visitors view the Gold Chalice of Eternal Stability exhibited at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 29, 2025.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Palace Museum. On Monday, the opening ceremony of the exhibition "A Century of Stewardship: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum" was held at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The exhibition features 200 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, offering a multidimensional interpretation of the Chinese civilization and the evolution of the Palace Museum. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)
